Dan Barker, "Losing Faith In Faith", 1992

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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.






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Barker, Dan. Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist. Freedom From Religion Foundation Press, 1992. ISBN-10: 1877733075. Barker, Dan. Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide For Young Skeptics. Prometheus Books, 1990. ISBN-10: 0879756071 ...
Dan Barker's Australian tour | Freethought University Alliance
Dan Barker is co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and author of Godless: How An Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists (2008) and Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist (1992). ...
Save On Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of ...
Barker relates the positive benefits from trusting in reason and human kindness instead of living in fear of false judgment and moral condemnation. Godless expands the story told in Dan's 1992 book, Losing Faith in Faith?the two books ...
Faith Requires not Questioning ? Godlessons
Mark S June 7, 2010 at 12:18 pm. Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. Dan Barker, ?Losing Faith in Faith?, 1992 ...
Dogma Debate with David Smalley: Dan Barker vs Kyle Butt
One of the most outspoken atheists of the past couple of decades is a man named Dan Barker, who wrote his most recognized work, Losing Faith in Faith, after he ?deconverted? from a form of evangelical Christianity to naturalistic atheism. ... is a last-ditch defense of the losing side? (1992, p. 88). Therefore, according to Barker (who agrees with Russell), a person who uses arguments that attack character is a person who is fighting desperately on the losing side. ...


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